What does nonentity mean?
Nonentity means (countable) An unimportant or insignificant person or thing..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(countable) An unimportant or insignificant person or thing..
The Queen Mother detests, but she dreads me—my uncle is indifferent, but finds me of use—our new Queen is already a nonentity—and Louis knows that my house is the most agreeable in Paris.
Lord, lord, Carrados, the tragic monotony of your elderly professional nonentity! I've known men who've whispered to me between the pulls at confidential pipes that they've come to hate the streets and the houses and the same old everlasting silly faces that they met day after day until they began to think very queer thoughts of how they might get away from it all.
But I am not the penniless nonentity I was when we first met; I can offer an honorable if not a brilliant marriage; and at the very lowest I can provide my wife – my widow, my relict – with a decent competence, an assured future.
Imagine them not even getting his name right, Weasley, it's almost as though he's a complete nonentity, isn't it?
He allowed himself to become a nonentity, a void, a receptacle for the voices of the world.
New objects, new amusements, will occupy her mind; and unhappiness, equally unsuspected and unspoken, will die of its own nonentity.
Gay men have no identity. They appropriate badly that of straight men who are all fucked up in the first place over thir ^([sic]) mythic masculinity stereotype. So, twice removed, the gay man flounders through life doubly fucked up dancing the dance of non-entity around the bright, burning flame of sex, power and upward mobility.
Use nonentity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Nonentity means (countable) An unimportant or insignificant person or thing..
Common synonyms include absolute zero, also-ran, chopped liver, cipher.
Possible antonyms include important person, big cheese, big hitter, big wheel.
The Queen Mother detests, but she dreads me—my uncle is indifferent, but finds me of use—our new Queen is already a nonentity—and Louis knows that my house is the most agreeable in Paris.
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